A beautiful fridge!
lawrence
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Hotpoint Customline!
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Has minor cracking on inner plastic lining. Other wise excel
With a starting bid of $700, it should be absolutely perfect inside. Geez Louise.
With a starting bid of $700, it should be absolutely perfect inside. Geez Louise.
applianceguy47
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Even if it were Pink, I wouldn't ...
$700 ? Apparently, anything less and they will just have to keep it. Oh, well. It's not 2005 anymore. S.S. is as common now as Harvest Gold was in 1975.
But, I wish them luck.
$700 ? Apparently, anything less and they will just have to keep it. Oh, well. It's not 2005 anymore. S.S. is as common now as Harvest Gold was in 1975.
But, I wish them luck.
Sites like the one in the link below may have something to do with this. People see how much some of these older pieces sell for after restoration and suddenly think they're old beater entitles them to a piece of the action. What they fail to understand is just how much work is involved in a complete restoration. It's an expensive undertaking and surely has a lot to do with the high selling prices. I doubt the folks at this company pay this much for future projects.
Cool fridge, but if I am not mistaken, it is also missing the Hotpoint trim emblem on the freezer door handle, which would be a hard part to find without buying a full parts fridge! Maybe defrosting the freezer would be helpful, too.
applianceguy47
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so true.
I came accross a 1958 (?) Lady Kenmore Dryer, in 2010. It was all there, but needed a lot of work. I wasn't able to sell it.
I came accross a 1958 (?) Lady Kenmore Dryer, in 2010. It was all there, but needed a lot of work. I wasn't able to sell it.
If we want to assume the picture of the frosty freezer is recent, it may be meant to serve as proof that the refrigerator functions properly.
I'm noticing there is more frost accumulation at left front of the freezer section, the same as on my two-door '57 GE Combination. I've been blaming it on the gasket but now I'm not so sure. When I first got my fridge I rotated the gasket so the funky part was on the hinged side, yet that area of the freezer doesn't have the same issue of frost creeping out onto the front side trim and mullion.
It's interesting that this single-door model doesn't have the serpentine cooling coil at the top of the fresh food section.
I'm noticing there is more frost accumulation at left front of the freezer section, the same as on my two-door '57 GE Combination. I've been blaming it on the gasket but now I'm not so sure. When I first got my fridge I rotated the gasket so the funky part was on the hinged side, yet that area of the freezer doesn't have the same issue of frost creeping out onto the front side trim and mullion.
It's interesting that this single-door model doesn't have the serpentine cooling coil at the top of the fresh food section.
Was the lower panel under the door only part of the built-in trim kit mentioned in the listing, or is just missing?
whirlaway
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The Kick Panel!
I would imagine they still have it just tired of it falling off! We had a Frigidare at home and the bottom was always falling off.We kept it on though you know how folks were in the fifties and sixties everything had to be just so! I went to a ladies house on a telephone repair visit one afternoon and she had a very similiar Stainless Hotpoint but built in to her knotty pine cabinets,her house and she were immaculate,she told me the house was custom built in 1956,and never had a problem with the fridge,it matched all of her 1956 stove. oven. and even range hood.The house looked like it just stepped out of a 1956 House & Garden magazine.Even the furniture and beautiful bowed sectioned pic window in the front to the knotty pine den.None of the pine was dark at all she told me it had been coated with Fabulon when the house was built and it would not yellow,as with varnish.What a treat! Most houses I would go in where pig-styes,This was wonderful!
I would imagine they still have it just tired of it falling off! We had a Frigidare at home and the bottom was always falling off.We kept it on though you know how folks were in the fifties and sixties everything had to be just so! I went to a ladies house on a telephone repair visit one afternoon and she had a very similiar Stainless Hotpoint but built in to her knotty pine cabinets,her house and she were immaculate,she told me the house was custom built in 1956,and never had a problem with the fridge,it matched all of her 1956 stove. oven. and even range hood.The house looked like it just stepped out of a 1956 House & Garden magazine.Even the furniture and beautiful bowed sectioned pic window in the front to the knotty pine den.None of the pine was dark at all she told me it had been coated with Fabulon when the house was built and it would not yellow,as with varnish.What a treat! Most houses I would go in where pig-styes,This was wonderful!
polkanut
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My uncle & aunt had all Hotpoint built-ins installed when they built their house in 1957. IIRC, their appliances were coppertone. Other than the compressor finally dying to the point of being unfixable circa 1985, the only other problem they had with the fridge was the plastic tabs holding the shelves got weak over time and broke off. My uncle had a devil of time finding a donor fridge for parts, but he eventually found one that had been traded in and was destined for the crusher.
Cheesekeeper door MIA
We had a similar fridge as kids. Ours had a spring-loaded swing-down door over the cheese-keeper. If so equipped on this model, it appears to be missing.
However, the smaller door is probably a heated butter-keeper which ours had and I really liked.
The unit is frosting up in the same manner as ours. Indeed the seals dried up. That wasn't so bad but ultimately frost got into the inner panel and fractured it. Can't tell from the pictures if the plastic lining is intact.
We had a similar fridge as kids. Ours had a spring-loaded swing-down door over the cheese-keeper. If so equipped on this model, it appears to be missing.
However, the smaller door is probably a heated butter-keeper which ours had and I really liked.
The unit is frosting up in the same manner as ours. Indeed the seals dried up. That wasn't so bad but ultimately frost got into the inner panel and fractured it. Can't tell from the pictures if the plastic lining is intact.
